The contextual ad network of shopping widgets Widgetbucks has just launched for the UK and European market.

So what’s so good about it?

Well a few things actually. First of all WidgetBucks gives bloggers and site owners another revenue stream via it’s widgets. What sets them apart from

Okay, it's 1 day late but we're finally there - Discount'd is live:-)  Discount'd intends to provide the very best handpicked Deals, Offers, & Coupons from the worlds top stores.

We have developed two editions of the site, one for the US market

http://www.discountd.com

and one for the UK market

http://www.discountd.co.uk

As well as viewing

Not much time left not until the launch of my new site. Most of the software now appears to be working with only the email system left to test out.

However, it's starting to dawn on me now how much work I have taken on with this. I started entering content onto the site over the weekend, and the process is taking considerably longer than I thought it would originally. What this means

It is widely accepted that having a .com top level domain name is critical to success. However, increasingly I am finding advertisers will pay more for sites that are more 'targeted'. So, a .co.uk domain for example being obviously aimed at UK users only can command more money than a more general 'International' .com domain.

In fact .com now seems to be becoming synonymous

I managed to get a large amount of work done on the new site over the weekend and one of the tasks I completed was creating a favicon for the site.

For those who aren't familiar with this term, a favicon is the small icon that you see at the left of the location bar of your browser when you visit certain sites. Prior to version 7 of Internet Explorer these used to only appear if a user

Those who use Google, which according to reports is just about everybody;-) will know that they store a cached version of all the pages that they index. This can be useful if a site is down for any reason or the particular article or page has been moved.

However, it does cause a problem with privacy for web sites that offer private groups, or forum areas. I know of quite a few that have been